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18/01/1943 |
First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
| 29/01/1943 |
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps. |
| 30/01/1943 |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds Heydrich as head of RSHA. |
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| 27/02/1943 |
Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz. |
28/02/1943
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A group of German wives of Jewish men begin to gather and protest in Berlin in order to try and stop the deportation of their husbands to concentrations camps. |
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01/03/1943 |
In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to pressure the U.S. government into helping the Jews of Europe. |
| 08/03/1943 |
Over 1,000 Germans wife's of Jewish men deported to concentrations camps are now protesting in Berlin. To prevent this kind of protest from spreading, Joseph Goebbels orders the release of the 1,500 Jewish men. |
| 14/03/1943 |
The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. |
| 17/03/1943 |
Bulgaria states opposition to deportation of its Jews. |
| 22/03/1943 |
Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz. |
| 31/03/1943 |
Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz. |
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04/04/1943 |
Newly built gas chamber/crematory V opens at Auschwitz. |
| 09/04/1943 |
Exterminations at Chelmno cease. The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos. In all, Chelmno will total 300,000 deaths. |
| 19/04/1943 |
An armed uprising in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw begins. |
| 20/04/1943 |
The Jewish uprising in Warsaw triggers a massive German response and initiates a month long massacre of the 60,000 Jews in the ghetto. |
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16/05/1943 |
The Warsaw ghetto is finally cleared of Jews by the German police and security units. |
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11/06/1943 |
Himmler orders liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland. |
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19/06/1943 |
Goebbels declares Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews). |
| 25/06/1943 |
Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. |
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02/08/1943 |
Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. |
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16/08/1943 |
The Bialystok Ghetto is liquidated. |
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11/09/1943 |
Beginning of Jewish family transports from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. |
| 30/09/1943 |
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazis begin rounding up all Danish Jews. However, a large number of Danish Jews had been saved when an anti-nazi businessman got wind of the German plan and passed the details to the Danish resistance who, with the help of Danish fisherman ferried many Jews to neutral Sweden. |
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04/10/1943 |
Himmler talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen. |
| 14/10/1943 |
Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty will survive. Exterminations then cease at Sobibor, after over 250,000 deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted. |
| 16/10/1943 |
Jews in Rome rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz. |
| 20/10/1943 |
An allied agreement to set up UN commission on war crimes is announced in London. |
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03/11/1943
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Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews. |
| 04/11/1943 |
Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "It is actually true that the Jews have, so to speak, disappeared from Europe and that the Jewish 'Reservoir of the East' from which the Jewish pestilence has for centuries beset the peoples of Europe has ceased to exist. But the Führer of the German people at the beginning of the war
prophesied what has now come to pass." |
| 11/11/1943 |
Auschwitz Kommandant Höss is promoted to chief inspector of concentration camps. The new kommandant, Liebehenschel, then divides up the vast Auschwitz complex of over 30 sub-camps into three main sections. |
| 20/11/1943 |
Jews in northern Italy are to be sent to concentration camps. |
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02/12/1943 |
The first transport of Jews from Vienna arrives at Auschwitz. |
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16/12/1943 |
The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed. |
